Example sentences of "set [adv prt] the [noun sg] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But just before this happens , while the taste of melancholy on his tongue is strong enough to set off the sweetness of the place , and of his freedom to enjoy it , but not yet strong enough to overpower it , he sees the woman who is gazing at him from the balustrade of a terrace looking down on the street . |
| 2 | The objectives of the policy are firstly to set out the attitude of the Wedgwood Group and , to elaborate on methods of dealing with alcohol problems in the workplace . |
| 3 | In connection with the role you have asked me to undertake in the dispute between Mr D Smith and the other directors of and shareholders in Smith & Co Limited , I am writing to set out the nature of the responsibilities which you wish me to perform . |
| 4 | It would be wise to set out the nature of the problem , because it is not one problem but many . |
| 5 | When the House of Lords rejected the Budget proposals of the Liberal government in 1909 , the response of that government was to set about the emasculation of the House of Lords . |
| 6 | Third , we will set down the perspective of the Left within the Labour Party — the party that has very belatedly come to an awareness of the significance of constitutional politics and of the need for change . |
| 7 | Much of his conversation , uttered in the flat voice which set off the originality of the content , conveyed in this way infinite nuances of banter and irony . |
| 8 | There is no reason why the clause should not set out the detail of the procedure , such as time limits by which representations have to be made , and whether representations are to be exchanged simultaneously between the parties or served consecutively like pleadings . |
| 9 | The following paragraphs set out the response of the University of Oxford to the HEFCE 's invitation in circular letter 17/93 to submit information on its strategic plans and financial forecasts up to 1996–7 . |
| 10 | This work behind them , Peach and Horne then set about the description of the North:West Highlands . |
| 11 | In 1891 , in an essay called ‘ The moral philosopher and the moral life ’ , William James had set out the essence of the realist 's case . |
| 12 | In furtherance of this goal the new regime immediately set about the modernization of the economy and the expansion of commerce , for Napoleon III , like most contemporaries , was convinced that the strength of Britain , the dominant power of the era , lay in her financial and commercial soundness . |
| 13 | ‘ Aqua Fortis ’ intros with a gentle lapping of waves before thickening into a pulsing yet controlled hypno-technological dream and is supported by the scary ‘ Asylum 3 ’ , which involves a story about some magic toys and sets up the rest of the track for a chilling rollercoaster ride into a spooky world that you really do n't want to enter . |
| 14 | In dealing with the matter of bringing a slave to the ordeal Childebert sets out the time-scale of the case , and states that his deadlines are as required in Lex Salica . |
| 15 | Christopher White 's introduction sets out the history of the collection , plus six-page bibliography . |
| 16 | see that er paragraph three of the statement of claims sets out the history of the transaction a and pleads the relevant facts . |
| 17 | The letter then sets out the text of the resolution of 31 October 1980 , and continues : |
| 18 | Since this document sets out the framework of the company and the purposes for which the company has been established , it is a public document available for inspection at Companies House , where companies are registered . |
| 19 | Just as the catechism sets out the substance of the faith for the lay people , so Primers , specifically designed prayer books to enable lay people to share in the liturgical offices of the Church , incorporated it into a series of devotions that daily and poignantly remind man of the cycle of salvation . |
| 20 | Section 2 of the HPA 1956 sets out the scope of the duty and restricts the kinds of property to which the duty applies . |
| 21 | That sets out the growth of the savings and which it contains in the report with paragraph and appendix reference numbers on them and it sets out for each of the groups , their proposed budgets . |
| 22 | The last page is the one which sets out the summary of the calendars for last year and next . |
| 23 | In his book A Priest On Trial , published this week by Bloomsbury , Lynch sets out the transcript of the trial and accuses the church of colluding in his personal crucifixion . |
| 24 | Er this report sets out the approval of the committee a revised summary service plan that would ultimately be included in the medium term plan document , that will be issued in March nineteen ninety three . |
| 25 | His concern throughout the crisis had been to keep the principles of the UN Charter in the minds of all the parties involved ; not only Article 1 , setting out the purpose of the UN , the maintenance of international peace and security , but Article VII , which excludes intervention in matters subject to any state 's domestic jurisdiction . |
| 26 | Secondary legislation in the United Kingdom is routinely published with an introductory paragraph indicating the statutory provisions on the basis of which the instrument is adopted and accompanied by an explanatory note setting out the purport of the instrument in plain language . |
| 27 | Each year it has produced a report setting out the state of the education service , and each year Ministers have treated that report as though it were a piece of stinking fish . |
| 28 | SAVE began by writing to the Department of Transport setting out the importance of the park , only to be told that a large number of representations had been made in favour of the proposed route . |
| 29 | In September 1973 , the Insight team of The Sunday Times set out the story of the seven arrests and the dropped charges for five murders . |
| 30 | As assistant director of the Geological Survey of Scotland ( 1901–11 ) Horne established harmonious working conditions , set about the revision of the work on Scottish coalfields , saw to the publication of many memoirs , and recruited excellent young geologists . |